I recently became a member of the CMO Club. We were asked to share our professional new year’s resolution for 2019. So, I thought I would share that with you here in hopes it inspires you to put a professional new year’s resolution of your own.
For someone who doesn’t believe in New Year’s resolutions this is an interesting question. I spent most of last year feeling reactive and overwhelmed. So this year I’m looking to pull in and manage the chaos. Productivity is a topic I study often and deeply.
That said I still didn’t have a system that worked for me. I had notes in various forms of electronic, paper, and worse in my head. I kept thinking I needed a master spreadsheet or Gantt chart but I couldn’t keep it up.
In Search Of A System
Then a strange thing happened. I was listening to an episode of Productivity Paradox hosted by Tonya Dalton is also the owner of Inkwell Press. As an aside Inkwell sells fantastic physical planners with a bevy of related content on her website Facebook page and through her podcast.
She had a guest speaker that week, John O’Leary who has an amazing personal story and has a podcast called Live Inspired. I was so intrigued by John’s personal story (90% of his body was burned at the age of nine). I started listening to his podcast. And he had an amazing guest, Scott Harrison who heads up Water Charity and had just released a book called Thirst.
As a water industry professional I was intrigued. And in fact as an aside looking to get involved in his new campaign and effort called spring. If you haven’t seen his video I strongly recommend it.
Now many of you have probably read his book but for me this was news. Happily he had reissued 2015 version that pulled in a lot of the current angst we all have around multitude of distractions with various devices, application, social media etc.
My New Year’s Resolution
As I read this book I felt David was speaking directly to me. He talked about the problems I had. Different lists of things in different places, different systems, half-built systems and too many things in my head.
Over the holiday break I took as much time as I could to wholesale implement the system. I’m only in week one but I already feel a measure of relief.
So back to the New Year’s resolution for the gal who doesn’t believe in New Year’s resolutions.
My New Year’s resolution is to stick with the GTD system as strongly and deeply as I can throughout the year to achieve my full potential and live my values.
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